Apponequet won only three events, but the Lakers were able to take advantage of their depth en route to winning their second straight Southern Conference Boys Swimming and Diving Championship at UMass Dartmouth Friday night.

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Posted Feb. 2, 2014 at 12:01 AM

By STAFF REPORT
Posted Feb. 2, 2014 at 12:01 AM

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Apponequet won only three events, but the Lakers were able to take advantage of their depth en route to winning their second straight Southern Conference Boys Swimming and Diving Championship at UMass Dartmouth Friday night.

Alex Gallant set school records in the 200-yard individual medley (1:59.95) and the 100 breaststroke (1:02.43), and the Lakers also won the 200 freestyle relay, where the team of Adam Davenport, Ryan O'Connor, Devon Turner and Gallant qualified for the state meet with a time of 1:36.49.

The Lakers finished first in the team standings with 303 points. Bishop Feehan (274) was second, followed by Westwood (188), Seekonk (184), Bishop Stang (174), Durfee (85), New Bedford (77) and Brockton (40).

"Our guys really stepped up. They were fired up for the meet and our depth was a key, because we had multiple scorers in a lot of events," Apponequet coach Brett Pacheco said. "We had a lot of top-12 finishes and that's how we piled up our points."

Turner qualified for the state meet with a third-place finish in the 200 freestyle (1:54.79), where Trevor Regas touched home fourth (2:00.57).

Beck was third in the 200 individual medley (2:08.83) and the Lakers did well in the 50 freestyle, where Nick McKenna finished fourth (24.22) and Davenport was sixth (24.39).

Davenport qualified for the state meet with a third-place time in the 100 butterfly (58.61) and O'Connor touched home fifth (1:02.54).

McKenna added a fourth-place time in the 100 freestyle (53.60) and Turner qualified for the state meet with a second-place finish in the 500 freestyle (5:12.59).

Teddy Minahan (1:00.54), Ragas (1:01.40) and Colin McGuirk (1:02.10) went 2-3-5 in the 100 backstroke, and Beck finished third in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.29).

Minahan, Beck, Gallant and McKenna combined for a second-place time of 1:47.93 in the 200 medley relay and the team of Davenport, Beck, Turner and McKenna finished third in the 400 freestyle relay (3:34.16).

New Bedford's Zachary Sousa qualified for the state meet with a second-place finish in the 100 freestyle (51.61). Carlos Cortes took third place in the one-meter diving event (161.15 points) and Sousa added a fifth-place finish in the 200 freestyle (2:01.57).

The Whalers also got a fifth-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay, where the team of Brianner Vieira, Maurice White, Paul Finneran and Sousa combined for a time of 4:04.13.

Lorenzo Dube finished third in the 50 freestyle (24.20) and fifth in the 100 free (53.68) for Bishop Stang, which also got fourth-place finishes from diver Cam Mello (131.50 points in the 1-meter event), Brady Gracia (1:01.72 in the 100 backstroke) and Sam Appleton, who cut four seconds off his best time in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.92).

Lenny Murphy was 15 seconds faster than his previous-best time in the 500 freestyle (5:35.35) and the Spartans finished third in the 200 freestyle relay where Mello, Murphy, Dube and Appleton teamed up for a time of 1:39.67.